His Go is a little disingenuous. This (https://gist.github.com/EricLagerg/105431503d32f18d239b) is almost as short as his D code, and functions the same.
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Would you say that Go is not excessively verbose in non-trivial use cases ? I recently had to sort a struct list in a program. Added lines of code for sorting a single list once : 30. What the ...
The only place go is more verbose is sorting, and lack of map, filter, and list comprehension. Most of the latter just means you need a 3 line loop where you have one line in python. But that should not be a great effect on any reasonable size program.
an example from https://www.spacemonkey.com/blog/posts/go-space-monkey -
we decided to transliterate our 90k lines of Python directly to Go, line by line
The 90K number includes our tests, but without tests, the Python codebase is 36,784 lines of code. Those same lines of code became 41,717 lines of Go code. So, not that much of an increase. When you consider that's just 4,933 more lines, it's not crazy to assume most of those are closing braces.
I'd say closing braces and trivial expansions of list comprehensions into 3-5 line loops.
There's a real life example of direct transliteration, not just a rewrite. That's 13.4% more lines. I think that's pretty close.